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[TerribleAtThisGame]

It was Metroid Prime 4 until that boring ass trailer came out.

 

[TxKnight7]

Some people have died while waiting for the game

 

[Roronoa Zoro]

Deep Down

 

[RAIDEN1]

After the 5th game i think anyone could make a decent story out of mgs6 then kojima, he dropped the ball big time on 5 (story wise)

You can say that again, but I think the team that was there with Kojima from 1-4 was different to Part 5, as a result the story suffered?

 

[Spitfire098]

Beyond good and evil 2

 

[Hudo]

Ngl, it would be nice to experience Half-Life 3 in my lifetime.

 

[ultrazilla]

32 YEARS. 32 LOOOONG YEARS I've been waiting on Axelay 2. I'm saying it's in development hell because Konami said
we'd see the game.

 

[CamHostage]

Capcom continues to trademark the Deep Down name as recently as November 2023. Hopefully they are removing the f2p components while fleshing out a proper game.

Again, no, you can't (or couldn't) just remove the "F2P components" from Deep Down and make it some kind of proper RPG; the F2P and everything else about it is what the game was and how the engine worked. That'd be like saying they should get rid of the F2P car soccer stuff of Rocket League and just flesfh out the racing gameplay...

Deep Down was a multiplayer dungeon crawler game. It was made to be MP, an almost arcade-like (and maybe gacha?) quest for loot. You would go "deep down" into a procedurally-generated dungeon and look for stuff and fight monsters. That's what the game was made to be, and part of why it looked so good way back on PS4. (Albeit that first trailer was pretty evidently bullshot; the second trailer was still impressive though even now, and the gameplay sampler was rather nice too.) For instance, that awesome fire effect with complex fluid dynamics works a lot better when you can confine the fluid simulation to a corridor or defined space. Also, watch the gameplay closely; it's more like a fighting game than an action game (sort of appropriate for a Capcom game made by Ono,) with high/low strikes and edge-to-edge parries for defense; the combat is centered around advance/retreat mechanics rather than strafing and hack-and-slashing. It doesn't generally do standard circle-strafing and dash-rolling since you're in the halls of a dungeon and there's often nowhere to roll. This was purposeful, tactical combat, based on accuracy of techniques rather than stats of equipment.



It could have been fun! It also could have been repetitive, or a slog. Unfortunately, we'll never know for sure...

 

[YCoCg]

Some people have died while waiting for the game

I remember when this trailer dropped and everyone was impressed with the actor scans and models, ...and now it just looks ok sorta unfinished compared to some big titles now.

 

[poppabk]

Supreme Commander 2
Any day now.

 

[NanaMiku]

Not exactly development hell, but canceled. I hope Granzella will buy the IP from Irem, just like Disaster Report.

 

[ChazAshley]

I remember back in 2004 - Sega released this trailer for Phantasy Star Universe and the trailer teases it as PSO 2 OR Phantasy Star 5.

Then we got PSU.

Never forget. Never forgive.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

I remember when this trailer dropped and everyone was impressed with the actor scans and models, ...and now it just looks ok sorta unfinished compared to some big titles now.

To be fair, they've updated the graphics since then:

 

[YCoCg]

To be fair, they've updated the graphics since then:

Oh that's actually pretty cool then, hopefully the new one doesn't look outdated by the time it's released!

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Demonik and Frame City Killer. Both of these were cancelled but I remember being intrigued by both of them. Demonik was even featured in that stupid movie.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

Deus Ex and Legacy of Kain. 2 series with so much potential, and we will likely never get another game from either. RIP.

 

[Jibran#one]

Silksong
Silksong
Silksong
It's been what 2 years since we last saw it on a Xbox showcase and not a word after that

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

 

[ahtlas7]

Again, no, you can't (or couldn't) just remove the "F2P components" from Deep Down and make it some kind of proper RPG; the F2P and everything else about it is what the game was and how the engine worked. That'd be like saying they should get rid of the F2P car soccer stuff of Rocket League and just flesfh out the racing gameplay...

Deep Down was a multiplayer dungeon crawler game. It was made to be MP, an almost arcade-like (and maybe gacha?) quest for loot. You would go "deep down" into a procedurally-generated dungeon and look for stuff and fight monsters. That's what the game was made to be, and part of why it looked so good way back on PS4. (Albeit that first trailer was pretty evidently bullshot; the second trailer was still impressive though even now, and the gameplay sampler was rather nice too.) For instance, that awesome fire effect with complex fluid dynamics works a lot better when you can confine the fluid simulation to a corridor or defined space. Also, watch the gameplay closely; it's more like a fighting game than an action game (sort of appropriate for a Capcom game made by Ono,) with high/low strikes and edge-to-edge parries for defense; the combat is centered around advance/retreat mechanics rather than strafing and hack-and-slashing. It doesn't generally do standard circle-strafing and dash-rolling since you're in the halls of a dungeon and there's often nowhere to roll. This was purposeful, tactical combat, based on accuracy of techniques rather than stats of equipment.



It could have been fun! It also could have been repetitive, or a slog. Unfortunately, we'll never know for sure...

I get what you’re saying and I’m no expert. My thought was not a simple “tear out f2p parts and call it done”. I mean in this length of time they could strip out everything and rebuild keeping what works while discarding what doesn’t. Evidently the engine it was running on was new and broken/incomplete anyway.

Agreed, it does have a fighting game feel with the camera pulling in close and the angles implemented, in places anyway. Arguably one of it’s appeals.

Thanks for the videos and breakdown. I hope we get to play an iteration of it one day.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

This.

Game channels Hideo Kojima so hard. Can't fucking wait for this.

 

[Hypereides]

SPINE by Nekki.

 

[pachura]

The Last Night

A sequel to Inside

 

[hemo memo]

Persona 6

 

[hemo memo]

Silksong
Silksong
Silksong
It's been what 2 years since we last saw it on a Xbox showcase and not a word after that

Let them cook.

 

[Shut0wen]

You can say that again, but I think the team that was there with Kojima from 1-4 was different to Part 5, as a result the story suffered?

Nah story suffered because he just couldnt say no, hes been saying hes done with the franchise for years before mgs5, personally i think he said yeah to mgs5 so that konami would allow him to make the fox engine

 

[Putonahappyface]

Little Devil Inside
Pragmata
Bioshock 4

 

[Midn1ght]

whatever PLAYDEAD has been working on for years.

And yeah, The Last Night as well.

 

[Jibran#one]

Let them cook.

It was announced in 2019
I've 2 kids till than, my almost 39 year old
Times I got for games is less and less
So I'm desperate

 

[Kadve]

Dont know if its truly stuck in dev hell but:

Viscera Cleanup Detail - VCD 2; sneak peak - Steam News

Greetings, all! ːvcdmopː With the new year already well underway, we wanted to share with you a little bit more of what we're up to and give you an early look at some of the design changes and vision we're going for in VCD 2 ahead of the showcase. We're confident that we have more than enough...

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Its been 9 years now since the first game.